Follow Your Food Corn, rice, and wheat constitute 51% of the calories humans consume. However, many other heritage crops are important local staples or more highly identified with a culture. Modern agriculture is also starting to recognize the nutritional value or hardiness of many of these crops. This event recognizes these less mainstream crops. Stephen Xootfly will present on 3 upcoming heritage crops: tef, cassava, […]

Image credits to the "David Rumsey Map Collection Center," from Stanford Libraries in Second Life. David Rumsey donated his entire physical map collection to Stanford University, where it is housed in the David Rumsey Map Center at the Stanford University Library. David Rumsey Cartography Map Islands Today we visit these four beautiful regions and it […]

The basic tenet of biology is reproduction to continue the species. Evolution and genetics has programmed every species' to follow behaviors to ensure the next generation. This genetic programming influences the mating game between the sexes in those species even in "higher" cognitive species such as humans. The interplay between conscious and subconscious driven behaviors is increasingly […]

The Future is Now In a daily fog of uncertainty, we may lose track of transformational changes just over the horizon. So where are we headed? Some of the world’s smartest people in government, social research, academia, business, economics, science, and other fields have looked 20 years into the future and seen a time of […]